Since the industrial revolution, the global economy has released about two trillion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, largely from burning fossil fuels. While continuing to add to this total is risky business, historical CO2 emissions do not have to remain a permanent liability.

Carbon removal innovators have already begun to transform those trillions of tons of excess CO2 into trillions of dollars of valuable products and services. They need federal support in order to realize the promise of this technology.